CHRISTIANS living out their faith through social action are now at risk in the United States, the Presiding Bishop, Dr Sean Rowe, has written in a pastoral letter to the Episcopal Church. He expects the pressure to worsen as the Church stands up for the migrants and the most vulnerable. In the wake of this second fatal shooting of an American at an immigration protest, Dr Rowe wrote that “Like Jesus, we live in frightening times.” As always, the most vulnerable were bearing the burden. “In the United States, we no longer live in a time when we can expect to practice our faith without risk, and we are confronting what vulnerable communities of faith have experienced for generations. At least three other instances have since emerged of children and teenagers’ being taken into detention by ICE agents.